Deuteronomy 33:7

Thou shalt not abhor regard as an abomination, ritually alien or -unclean." see on Deuteronomy 7:26.

stranger Guest, or client. Heb. gçr.

See introductory note above.

bring him in Not back. Judah is isolated from the rest of the nation, but whether this refers to that early isolation, to which Deborah's silence upon Judah testifies, or to the later one after the Disruption of the Kingdom it is impossible to say; see introd. to this ch.

With his hands, etc.] Text uncertain, Sam. his hand, LXX his hands, contend for him. Read therefore His own hands have striven for him, in antithesis to the next line, But thou, etc. This is better than Stade's - with thy hands strive thou for him and thou," etc. R.V. marg., reading another vb with the same consonants, is possible but less likely; better than it is his own hands have sufficed for him. Calvin: let his hands suffice him; so too Geddes. Contrast the very different description of Judah in Genesis 49:8-12.